Papua New Guinea: IFRC Humanitarian Appeals and DREF Funding Records

This dataset tracks humanitarian funding appeals and Disaster Response Emergency Fund (DREF) allocations for Papua New Guinea, managed by the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC). It provides records of financial requests and responses for both large-scale complex disasters and smaller localized emergencies. The data is provided in CSV format and was last updated in March 2026.

Use Cases

• Analyzing humanitarian funding trends for Papua New Guinea using appeal amounts
• Comparing the frequency of Emergency Appeals versus DREF allocations for local disaster response
• Tracking the temporal distribution of humanitarian aid requests in the region

Strengths

• Official data from the IFRC secretariat
• Covers both large-scale Emergency Appeals and smaller DREF allocations
• Specific focus on Papua New Guinea humanitarian context

Limitations

• Unknown record count and column structure
• Lack of specific metadata regarding individual disaster event descriptions in the summary

Provenance

Source

International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC)

Collection Method

Administrative records of humanitarian appeals and fund allocations

Freshness

Updated as of March 2026.

Geography

Papua New Guinea